I blew out my knee. My newly referred Doc/Surgeon says my knee is too shot to do arthroscopic surgery (I'm too old, plus remaining cartilage level is too thin and, after he 'cleans up the trash it will be bone on bone').
There is another therapy that he tried, something called 'rooster comb'. It's a synthetic viscous injection that lubes things up. That worked pretty well for about two weeks, until I climbed 16 super-tall stairs at a local restaurant.
Doc wants me to have a Stem Cell Procedure, but it's not covered by insurance because it's 'Experimental.' My cost, which I would pay directly to the doctor (his office does all the work, mixing up the stem cells from fat my cells, etc.) is $4200. He said he has an 85% success rate 'as he defines it.'
When asked for an explanation of that success rate, the Doc said,
"85% of my patients who have had the procedure state that they feel 50% better after the surgery than they did before the surgery."
Candidly, that doesn't sound like an 85% success rate, but there is no point in being too snarky about the whole thing.
The Doc did say that losing weight would help a lot and I have lost 31lbs since I blew out the knee. That's 31lbs 'as I define it', by the way. I figure if it works for the Doc to make statements like that, it should work for me.
Anyway, gang, what else is out there in the way of treatment for a 66 year old gentlemen? Canes? Knee braces? Ask my family doctor for another referral? An Enquiring Mind wants to know!!
Thanks, gilded
There is another therapy that he tried, something called 'rooster comb'. It's a synthetic viscous injection that lubes things up. That worked pretty well for about two weeks, until I climbed 16 super-tall stairs at a local restaurant.
Doc wants me to have a Stem Cell Procedure, but it's not covered by insurance because it's 'Experimental.' My cost, which I would pay directly to the doctor (his office does all the work, mixing up the stem cells from fat my cells, etc.) is $4200. He said he has an 85% success rate 'as he defines it.'
When asked for an explanation of that success rate, the Doc said,
"85% of my patients who have had the procedure state that they feel 50% better after the surgery than they did before the surgery."
Candidly, that doesn't sound like an 85% success rate, but there is no point in being too snarky about the whole thing.
The Doc did say that losing weight would help a lot and I have lost 31lbs since I blew out the knee. That's 31lbs 'as I define it', by the way. I figure if it works for the Doc to make statements like that, it should work for me.
Anyway, gang, what else is out there in the way of treatment for a 66 year old gentlemen? Canes? Knee braces? Ask my family doctor for another referral? An Enquiring Mind wants to know!!
Thanks, gilded
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